Dialogue-Queered

Reflections with an Australian ambience

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C21st 'blues'

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In this way, Open Socrates largely delivers on its first promise: It inspires us to live more philosophically; it pushes us to think about how to live a life defined by actual principles that we reflectively endorse and not simply the most expedient rationalizations that occur to us in any given situation. But Callard undermines this valuable point by describing the examined life and the ideas it might produce strictly in terms of conversational roles, underemphasizing the social roles and political hierarchies that determine who we are and allow us to have open-ended philosophical conversations in the first place.

Olúfémi O. Táíwò at The Nation. Examined Lives

Agnes Callard and the politics of public philosophy.

Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life by Agnes Callard

So often nowadays the clickbait headline would read along the lines of: " Olúfémi O. Táíwò eviserates Agnes Callard." But this critical essay is so much not that. Becasue he is so clear from the beginning that he shares Callard's purpose in writing the book and proves it with cogent arguments made with respect and good humor.

[rigensis]

The Death of Socrates, painting by Jacques-Louis David, 1787

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Early Winter

Anna Weyant

oil on canvas, 2023

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Anna Weyant (Canadian, 1995), Early Winter, 2023. Oil on canvas, 24 x 18 in.

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Early winter has come - in the southern hemisphere!

[baldespendus]

Self-portrait as an absinthe drinking Mephistopheles from Goethe’s Faust, 1914. By Harry Clarke.

[liberalsarecool]

Put Musk, Bezos, Zuckerberg, Ellisons, and all the Hedge Fund bastards like Ken Griffin in the same banal barrel. Moral voids, ethical blanks.

[neo-catharsis]

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If this is as described - it is a dark avatar - a harbinger of death - in Ukraine.

[yama-bato]

Minimalist sun moon phases art print, mid century modern art, black and white printable wall art set is a mixed media by

Mounir Khalfouf

which was uploaded on April 26th, 2021.

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Winter beckons in the southern hemisphere!

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Telling My Father

by James Crews

I found him on the porch that morning, sipping cold coffee, watching a crow dip down from the power line into the pile of black bags stuffed in the dumpster where he pecked and snagged a can tab, then carried it off, clamped in his beak like the key to a room only he knew about. My father turned to me then, taking in the reek of my smoke, traces of last night’s eyeliner I decided not to wipe off this time. Out late was all he said. And then smiled, rubbing the small of my back through the robe for a while, before heading inside, letting the storm door click shut behind him. Later, when I stepped into the kitchen, I saw it waiting there on the table—a glass of orange juice he had poured for me and left sweating in a patch of sunlight so bright I couldn’t touch it at first.

[soloeroticus]

[fadinggardentyphoon]

An actual event known as "atomic leisure," where residents and tourists in Las Vegas watched nuclear tests conducted at the Nevada Test Site from nearby swimming pools. The photograph captures the surreal scene from the Desert Inn pool on July 17, 1955, at approximately 5:30 a.m..

[whitehotel]

Julie McEnerny, Wet season, branch #2 (2023)

[waterinthemouth]

TYPOGRAPHY

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Wood burning is reintroducing lead pollution into the air, US scientists find

Study of samples from seven winters suggests neurotoxic metal coming from wood itself rather than old paint

Extracts: #1 The research by academics from the University of Massachusetts Amherst began by analysing samples of particle pollution from five suburban and rural towns in the north-east US. They looked for tiny particles of potassium that are given off when wood is burned and also particles containing lead.

Samples from seven winters revealed associations between potassium and lead. When there were more wood burning particles in a daily sample, there was more lead in the air, with clear straight-line relationships in four of the five towns.

#2 [Tricia] Henegan said: “The use of wood as an energy source is a relic of the past, one that should not be relived if given a choice. Although wood fuel use can feel nostalgic, it does have negative consequences on air quality, and therefore public health.”

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The New Four Seasons – Vivaldi Recomposed – Autumn 3 (Official Video) - Max Richter

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"Si Mandeville représente un turning point dans la métaphysique occidentale, c’est parce qu’il a abandonné le projet augustinien d’ajuster la cité des hommes sur la Cité céleste – ceci ne vaut plus que pour quelques hommes saints égarés dans le monde. Et il a proposé un autre projet valant pour l’immense majorité des hommes ; lesquels ne sont pas des saints, mais des dépravés. Or Dieu, dans son immense bonté, a tout prévu : ce sont de leurs vices, de leur concupiscence, que sortira un nouvel ordre supérieur à tous ceux qui ont précédé. Les hommes n’ont plus à se reprocher leurs vices, bien au contraire, ils doivent les vivre sans honte, sans vergogne, car c’est de leurs turpitudes que naîtra une toute nouvelle vertu. Celle qui permettra enfin de sortir de la pénurie pour accéder au monde de la richesse et de l’abondance."

Dany-Robert Dufour, Qui est Bernard de Mandeville ?, introduction à Bernard de Mandeville, La Fable des abeilles, trad. Jean Bertrand, 2017.

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Google English: "If Mandeville represents a turning point in Western metaphysics, it is because he abandoned the Augustinian project of aligning the city of men with the celestial City—this now only applies to a few holy men lost in the world. And he proposed another project valid for the vast majority of men; who are not saints, but depraved. Now God, in his immense goodness, has foreseen everything: it is from their vices, from their concupiscence, that a new order superior to all those that preceded it will emerge. Men no longer have to reproach themselves for their vices; on the contrary, they must live them without shame, without remorse, for it is from their depravity that a completely new virtue will be born. The one that will finally allow them to escape poverty and enter a world of wealth and abundance."

Comment: Early classical liberal thinking within which selfish 'vices' can via - as later elaborated - competitive markets - yield a type of social good.